Portal:Biografía

Temas del portal: Actividades; Cultura; Geografía; Salud; Historia; Matemáticas; Naturaleza; Gente; Filosofía; Religión; Sociedad; Tecnología; Portal aleatorio

El portal de biografías

Una biografía , o simplemente bio , es una descripción detallada de la vida de una persona. Implica más que solo datos básicos como educación, trabajo, relaciones y muerte; retrata la experiencia de una persona en estos eventos de la vida. A diferencia de un perfil o currículum vitae , una biografía presenta la historia de vida de un sujeto, destacando varios aspectos de su vida, incluidos detalles íntimos de su experiencia, y puede incluir un análisis de la personalidad del sujeto.

Las obras biográficas suelen ser de no ficción , pero la ficción también puede utilizarse para retratar la vida de una persona. Una forma de cobertura biográfica en profundidad se denomina escritura de legado. Las obras en diversos medios, desde la literatura hasta el cine, forman el género conocido como biografía.

Una biografía autorizada se escribe con el permiso, la cooperación y, en ocasiones, la participación de un sujeto o de sus herederos. Una autobiografía la escribe la propia persona, a veces con la ayuda de un colaborador o escritor fantasma . ( Artículo completo... )

Actualizar con nuevas selecciones a continuación (purgar)

Biografías destacadas –@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen y (prefiere esquema de color:oscuro){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}cargar nuevo lote

Aquí se muestran artículos destacados , que representan algunos de los mejores contenidos de Wikipedia en inglés.

Imagen 1
Caricatura de Dando, 1830

Edward Dando ( c. 1803 - 28 de agosto de 1832) fue un ladrón que se hizo conocido en Gran Bretaña debido a su inusual hábito de comer en exceso en puestos de comida y posadas, y luego revelar que no tenía dinero para pagar. Aunque la comida que consumía era variada, le gustaban especialmente las ostras , habiendo comido una vez 25 docenas de ellas con una hogaza y media de pan con mantequilla.

Dando comenzó sus robos alrededor de 1826 y fue arrestado al menos ya en 1828. A menudo salía de una casa de corrección y se iba de juerga de comida el mismo día, siendo arrestado de inmediato y compareciendo ante el tribunal a los pocos días, solo para ser enviado nuevamente a prisión; su defensa normal era que tenía hambre. En al menos una ocasión fue puesto en confinamiento solitario después de robar las raciones de sus compañeros de prisión. La mayor parte de su actividad fue en Londres, aunque también pasó tiempo en Kent , gran parte de él en las cárceles del condado.mientras se encontraba en la prisión de Coldbath Fields , Dando contrajo cólera (parte de una pandemia de larga duración ) y murió. ( Artículo completo... )
Imagen 2

El amor en 2014

Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. In 2020, NME named her one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years.

Love had an itinerant childhood, but was primarily raised in Portland, Oregon, where she played in a series of short-lived bands and was active in the local punk scene. After briefly being in a juvenile hall, she spent a year living in Dublin and Liverpool before returning to the United States and pursuing an acting career. She appeared in supporting roles in the Alex Cox films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987) before forming the band Hole in Los Angeles with guitarist Eric Erlandson. The group received critical acclaim from underground rock press for their 1991 debut album Pretty on the Inside, produced by Kim Gordon, while their second release, Live Through This (1994), was met with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales. In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which established her as a mainstream actress. The following year, Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards. (Full article...)
Image 3

Bourdon with Canada in 2005

Luc Bourdon (February 16, 1987 – May 29, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League from 2006 until 2008. After overcoming childhood arthritis, he was selected third overall in the 2003 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) draft and played for the Val-d'Or Foreurs, Moncton Wildcats, and Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, spending four seasons in the QMJHL. The Canucks drafted Bourdon with their first selection, 10th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and he split his professional career with the Canucks and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose. Noted as a strong defenceman who could contribute on offence, Bourdon represented Canada in three international tournaments, winning two gold medals at the IIHF World Junior Championship and a silver medal at the IIHF World U18 Championship.

Bourdon died at the age of 21 near his hometown of Shippagan, New Brunswick when his motorcycle collided with a tractor-trailer. (Full article...)
Image 4

Loxton in about 1948

Sam Loxton was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team, which toured England in 1948. Bradman's men went undefeated in their 34 matches; this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles.

A batting all rounder, Loxton played as a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm fast medium bowler who reinforced the frontline pace attack of Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller and Bill Johnston. Starting the tour as a fringe player, Loxton was omitted for the pre-Test fixtures against Worcestershire and the Marylebone Cricket Club, where Australia traditionally fielded their full-strength team. He was overlooked for the first two Tests; reserve opening batsman Bill Brown played out of position in the middle-order. However, Brown struggled in the unfamiliar role, and Loxton scored 159 not out against Gloucestershire to oust the former from his position for the Third Test at Old Trafford. Loxton scored 36 to help Australia avoid the follow on and salvage a draw, before making his most notable contribution in the Fourth Test at Headingley. He took 3/55 in the first innings and scored a counter-attacking 93 on the third day to keep Australia in the game; they went on to win after a world record-breaking run-chase on the final day. Loxton also played in the Fifth Test and ended the series with 144 runs at a batting average of 48.00 and three wickets at a bowling average of 49.33. (Full article...)
Image 5

Griffith pictured on the frontispiece of his book In an Unknown Prison Land (1901)

George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones (20 August 1857 – 4 June 1906) was a British writer. He was active mainly in the science fiction genre—or as it was known at the time, scientific romance—in particular writing many future-war stories and playing a significant role in shaping that emerging subgenre. For a short period of time, he was the leading science fiction author in his home country both in terms of popularity and commercial success.

Griffith grew up with his parents and older brother, receiving home-schooling and moving frequently during his childhood due to his father's career as a clergyman. Following his father's death when Griffith was 14 years old, he went to school for little over a year before leaving England and travelling the world, returning at the age of 19. He then worked as a teacher for ten years before pursuing a career in writing. After an initial setback that left Griffith without the means to provide for himself, he was hired by the publisher C. Arthur Pearson in 1890. Griffith made his literary breakthrough with his debut novel The Angel of the Revolution (1893), which was serialized in Pearson's Weekly before being published in book format. He signed a contract of exclusivity with Pearson and followed it up with the likewise successful sequel Olga Romanoff (1894). (Full article...)
Image 6

Benjamin, c. 1856

Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith.

Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from London who had moved to Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies when it was occupied by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. Seeking greater opportunities, his family immigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Benjamin attended Yale College but left without graduating. He moved to New Orleans, where he read law and passed the bar. (Full article...)
Image 7

William Robinson "W. R. " Brown (January 17, 1875 – August 4, 1955) was an American corporate officer of the Brown Company of Berlin, New Hampshire. He was also an influential Arabian horse breeder, the founder and owner of the Maynesboro Stud, and an authority on Arabian horses.

After graduating from Williams College, Brown joined the family corporation, then known as the Berlin Mills Company, and became manager of the Woods Products Division, overseeing the company's woodlands and logging operations. He became an early advocate for sustainable forest management practices, was a member of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission from 1909 until 1952, and served on the boards of several forestry organizations. As chair of the Forestry Commission, Brown helped send sawmills to Europe during World War I to assist the war effort. He was influenced by the Progressive movement, instituting employee benefits such as company-sponsored care for injured workers that predated modern workers' compensation laws. As a Republican, he served as a presidential elector for New Hampshire in 1924. (Full article...)
Image 8

Davenport in 1912

Homer Calvin Davenport (1867 – May 2, 1912) was a political cartoonist and writer from the United States. He is known for drawings that satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, most notably Ohio Senator Mark Hanna. Although Davenport had no formal art training, he became one of the highest paid political cartoonists in the world. Davenport also was one of the first major American breeders of Arabian horses and one of the founders of the Arabian Horse Club of America.

A native Oregonian, Davenport developed interests in both art and horses as a young boy. He tried a variety of jobs before gaining employment as a cartoonist, initially working at several newspapers on the West Coast, including The San Francisco Examiner, purchased by William Randolph Hearst. His talent for drawing and interest in Arabian horses dovetailed in 1893 at the Chicago Daily Herald when he studied and drew the Arabian horses exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition. When Hearst acquired the New York Morning Journal in 1895, money was no object in his attempt to establish the Journal as a leading New York newspaper, and Hearst moved Davenport east in 1885 to be part of what is regarded as one of the greatest newspaper staffs ever assembled. Working with columnist Alfred Henry Lewis, Davenport created many cartoons in opposition to the 1896 Republican presidential candidate, former Ohio governor William McKinley, and Hanna, his campaign manager. McKinley was elected and Hanna elevated to the Senate; Davenport continued to draw his sharp cartoons during the 1900 presidential race, though McKinley was again victorious. (Full article...)
Image 9

Clijsters in 2011

Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (Dutch pronunciation: [kɪm ˈklɛistərs] ^ⓘ; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters reached the world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles, having held both rankings simultaneously in 2003. She won six major titles, four in singles and two in doubles.

Clijsters competed professionally from 1997 in an era in which her primary rivals were compatriot Justine Henin and Serena Williams. Coming from a country with limited success in men's or women's tennis, Clijsters became the first Belgian player to attain the No. 1 ranking. Together with Henin, she established Belgium as a leading force in women's tennis as the two of them led their country to their first Fed Cup crown in 2001 and were the top two players in the world in late 2003. Individually, Clijsters won 41 singles titles and 11 doubles titles on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. She was a three-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships. Between singles and doubles, she has been a champion at all four Grand Slam tournaments, winning the US Open and the Australian Open in singles and Wimbledon and the French Open in doubles partnering Ai Sugiyama. Her success at the majors was highlighted by winning three consecutive appearances at the US Open. (Full article...)
Image 10

Thomas F. Mulledy SJ (/mʌˈleɪdi/ muh-LAY-dee; August 12, 1794 – July 20, 1860) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who became the president of Georgetown College, a founder of the College of the Holy Cross, and a Jesuit provincial superior. His brother, Samuel Mulledy, also became a Jesuit and president of Georgetown.

Mulledy entered the Society of Jesus and was educated for the priesthood in Rome, before completing his education in the United States. He twice served as president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. At Georgetown, Mulledy undertook a significant building campaign, which resulted in Gervase Hall and Mulledy Hall (later renamed Isaac Hawkins Hall). He became the second provincial superior of the Maryland Province of the Jesuit order, and orchestrated the sale of the province's slaves in 1838 to settle its debts. This resulted in outcry from his fellow Jesuits and censure by the church authorities in Rome, who exiled him to Nice in the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia for several years. While provincial superior, Mulledy was also the vicar general for the Diocese of Boston. (Full article...)
Image 11

Portrait by William Scrots, c. 1550

Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because Edward never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland (1550–1553).

Edward's reign was marked by many economic problems and social unrest that in 1549 erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland and Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church of England into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious matters. His father, Henry VIII, had severed the link between the English Church and Rome but continued to uphold most Catholic doctrine and ceremony. It was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was established for the first time in England with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the Mass, and the imposition of compulsory English in church services. (Full article...)
Image 12

Levitt in 1937

Albert Levitt (March 14, 1887 – June 18, 1968) was an American judge, law professor, Unitarian minister, attorney and government official. He unsuccessfully ran many times for public office in Connecticut, California and New Hampshire, generally receiving only a small percentage of the vote. While a judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands in 1935, he ordered that women there must be allowed to register and vote.

Born in Maryland, Levitt joined the U.S. Army at age 17. He then went to seminary and spent several years as a student, eventually gaining degrees from three Ivy League universities. After World War I broke out, he twice served—once in the ambulance corps for the French, and once as a chaplain in the U.S. Army. In the latter capacity, he was wounded and gassed. (Full article...)
Image 13

Coronation portrait, 1762

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover, who, unlike his two predecessors, was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

George was born during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King George II, as the first son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Following his father's death in 1751, Prince George became heir apparent and Prince of Wales. He succeeded to the throne on George II's death in 1760. The following year, he married Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, with whom he had 15 children. George III's life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, Britain lost 13 of its North American colonies in the American War of Independence. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1807, the transatlantic slave trade was banned from the British Empire. (Full article...)
Image 14

Griffiths in 1991

Terence Martin Griffiths OBE (born 16 October 1947) is a Welsh retired professional snooker player and current coach and pundit. After winning several amateur titles, including the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and back-to-back English Amateur Championships in 1977 and 1978, Griffiths turned professional in June 1978 at the age of 30. In his second professional tournament, he qualified for the 1979 World Snooker Championship. He reached the final of the event where he defeated Dennis Taylor by 24 frames to 16. This was only the second time a qualifier had won the World Snooker Championship, after Alex Higgins in 1972; only Shaun Murphy in 2005 has since emulated the achievement. In 1988, Griffiths again reached the final of the competition. He was tied with Steve Davis, 8–8, but lost the match 11–18.

Griffiths reached at least the quarter-finals of the World Championship for nine consecutive years, from 1984 to 1992. He also won the Masters in 1980 and the UK Championship in 1982, completing snooker's Triple Crown. Griffiths was runner-up at the Masters three times and reached the final of the 1989 European Open, where he lost the deciding frame to John Parrott. (Full article...)
Image 15

Reg Saunders in 1940

Reginald Walter Saunders, MBE (7 August 1920 – 2 March 1990) was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army. He came from a military family, his forebears having served in the Boer War and the First World War. Enlisting as a soldier in 1940, he saw action during the Second World War in North Africa, Greece and Crete, before being commissioned as a lieutenant and serving as a platoon commander in New Guinea during 1944–1945. His younger brother Harry also joined the Army, and was killed in 1942 during the Kokoda Track campaign.

After the war, Saunders was discharged and returned to civilian life. He later served as a company commander with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) during the Korean War, where he fought at the Battle of Kapyong. Saunders left the Army in 1954 and worked in the logging and metal industries, before joining the Office of Aboriginal Affairs (later the Department of Aboriginal Affairs) as a liaison officer in 1969. In 1971, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his community service. He died in 1990, aged 69. (Full article...)

Sabías... -mostrar diferentes entradas

... ¿que la artista siria Kefah Ali Deeb pintó una silla vacía como su visión de las víctimas y los refugiados?
... que antes de descubrir una rudimentaria estación de trabajo de audio en el teléfono de su madre, el músico francés Lewis OfMan quería ser perfumista ?
... que Gaylord Perry admitió que había hecho trampa en el béisbol en su autobiografía Me and the Spitter ?
... que la Casa de John McCaffary fue el lugar del asesinato de Bridget McCaffary en 1850, por el cual John McCaffary se convirtió en la primera y única persona en ser ejecutada por el estado de Wisconsin ?
... que uno de los distritos de la ciudad de Astracán lleva el nombre del líder bolchevique Aleksandr Trusov ?
... que para el episodio de Better Call Saul " Breaking Bad ", el escritor y director Thomas Schnauz filmó los cameos de Walter White y Jesse Pinkman siete meses antes de la producción principal?
... que la primera película rusa, Stenka Razin , retrata al histórico líder cosaco arrojando a una princesa al Volga ?
... que según el escritor Russell T Davies , concibió elementos del episodio de Doctor Who " El imperio de la muerte " décadas antes de escribirlo?
...que el terreno para una biblioteca construida para afroamericanos en Virginia fue donado por el Papa Pío XII ?
... que la ejecución del dirigente sindical burkinés Soumane Touré fue evitada por la intervención de su amigo de infancia, el entonces presidente Thomas Sankara ?
... que la cantante de rock británica Hannah Grae se volvió viral en línea con una parodia contra el acoso sexual de " Barbie Girl " de Aqua ?
... que el obispo de Brooklyn estaba "horrorizado" de que el vídeo musical de " Feather ", en el que Sabrina Carpenter mata a varios hombres, fuera filmado en una iglesia?

Imágenes generales

Las siguientes son imágenes de varios artículos relacionados con biografías en Wikipedia.

Image 1James Boswell escribió lo que muchos consideran la primera biografía moderna, La vida de Samuel Johnson , en 1791. (de Biografía )
Image 2Los victorianos eminentes establecieron el estándar para la escritura biográfica del siglo XX, cuando se publicó en 1918. (de Biografía )
Image 3San Agustín de Hipona escribió Confesiones , la primera autobiografía occidental jamás escrita, alrededor del año 400. Retrato de Philippe de Champaigne , siglo XVII. (de Autobiografía )
Image 4Portada de la primera edición en inglés de la autobiografía de Benjamin Franklin , 1793 (de Autobiografía )
Image 5Una escena de Baburnama (de Autobiografía )
Image 6El libro de los mártires de John Foxe fue una de las primeras biografías en lengua inglesa. (de Biografía )
Image 7Tercer volumen de una edición de 1727 de las Vidas de los nobles griegos y romanos de Plutarco impresa por Jacob Tonson (de Biografía )
Image 8Einhard como escriba (de la biografía )

¿Necesitar ayuda?

¿Tienes alguna pregunta sobre el contenido biográfico de Wikipedia y no encuentras respuesta a ella? Considera preguntarla en el mostrador de referencia de Wikipedia .

Complicarse

Para obtener recursos para el editor y colaborar con otros editores para mejorar los artículos de Wikipedia relacionados con la biografía, consulte WikiProject Biografía .

Retrato seleccionado

Image 1
Moshe Yaalon
Fotografía: Reuven Kapuscinski
Moshe Ya'alon (nacido en 1950) es un político israelí y actual ministro de Defensa . Ya'alon fue llamado a filas como reservista durante la Guerra de Yom Kippur en 1973. Después de la guerra, se reincorporó al ejército como oficial y ascendió de rango, liderando la unidad de comando Sayeret Matkal , la Brigada de Paracaidistas y la Inteligencia Militar . En 2002 fue nombrado Jefe del Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel , dimitiendo en 2005. Desde 2013 se desempeña como Ministro de Defensa del país.
Image 2
David Suchet
Photo credit: Phil Chambers
A portrait of David Suchet OBE, an English actor best known for his television portrayal of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot. For this role, he earned a 1991 British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) nomination. In preparation for the role he says that he read every novel and short story, and compiled an extensive file on Poirot.
Image 3
Frank Sinatra
Photo: William P. Gottlieb
American singer Frank Sinatra (1915–98) in 1947, at the Liederkrantz Hall in New York. Sinatra began his career in 1935, reaching unprecedented success after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. After a lull in the late 1940s, his career regained new vigor in the 1950s.
Image 4
Sitting Bull
Photo credit: D.F. Barry
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man. He is notable in American and Native American history in large part for his major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against Custer's 7th Cavalry, where his premonition of defeating them became reality. Even today, his name is synonymous with Native American culture, and he is considered to be one of the most famous Native Americans in history. Years later, he also participated in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, where he frequently cursed audiences in his native tongue as they applauded him.
Image 5
L-to-R: Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand
Photo credit: Alexander Gardner
Allan Pinkerton (left), President Abraham Lincoln (center), and Major General John A. McClernand (right). This photo was taken not long after the Civil War's first battle on northern soil in Antietam, Maryland, on October 3, 1862. Pinkerton was the head of Union Intelligence Services at the time. He also, allegedly, foiled an assassination attempt against Lincoln. His wartime work was critical in Pinkerton's development, which he later used to pioneer the American private detective industry when he formed the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Image 6
Vincent van Gogh
Painting credit: John Russell
Vincent van Gogh is an oil-on-canvas portrait by Australian painter John Russell, dated 1886. It depicts Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, who became lifelong friends with Russell after meeting him at Fernand Cormon's atelier in Paris, which they both attended. Painted in a realist and academic manner, the portrait shows hints of the impressionist techniques with which they began experimenting in the latter half of the 1880s. It is the earliest of three portraits painted of Van Gogh by his contemporaries, the other two being Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) and Paul Gauguin's The Painter of Sunflowers (1888). Van Gogh seems to have been particularly attached to Russell's portrait, which Russell gifted to him as a mark of their friendship. The painting passed from Van Gogh to his brother Theo and then to their family; it is now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Image 7
Maxim Gorky
Photo: Herman Mishkin; Restoration: Fallschirmjäger
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) was a Russian political activist and writer who helped establish the Socialist Realism literary method. This portrait dates from a trip Gorky made to the United States in 1906, on which he raised funds for the Bolsheviks. During this trip he wrote his novel The Mother.
Image 8
Marguerite de Navarre
Engraver: John James Hinchliff; Restoration: Adam Cuerden
An engraving of Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), the queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre, from an 1864 English edition of the Heptaméron, a collection of her own short stories. She was a patron of humanists and reformers, and as the older sister of King Francis I of France, Marguerite held tremendous influence in France, so much so that French historian Jules Michelet called her the "Mother" of the French Renaissance and American scholar Samuel Putnam called her the "First Modern Woman".
Image 9
Cary Grant
Photograph: RKO publicity photographer; Edit: Chris Woodrich
Actor Cary Grant (1904–86) in a publicity photo for Suspicion (1940). Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. During his 34-year career he acted in over 50 films, including The Eagle and the Hawk, Bringing Up Baby, and North by Northwest.
Image 10
Peter Oliver (painter)
Portrait: Peter Oliver
An 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) tall self-portrait of the English miniaturist Peter Oliver (1594–1648). He often worked with watercolours.
Image 11
Frederick III, German Emperor
Image credit: Illustrated London News
Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia, later Frederick III, in the August 20, 1870 issue of the Illustrated London News, during his time as commander of one of the three divisions of the German Army in the Franco-Prussian War. He was noted for his fondness for liberal democracy and pacifism, but died less than a year after he became king, before he could institute any real reforms. His death and replacement by his more militaristic son, without the reforms that might have impeded his son's urges, is often considered one of the factors that led to World War I. This engraving is based on a portrait photograph of him taken in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Image 12
Dilma Rousseff
Photo: Agência Brasil
Dilma Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She was the first woman to hold the office. Previously she was Chief of Staff to the President of Brazil, serving under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, from 2005 to 2010. The daughter of a Bulgarian entrepreneur, she is an economist by training and co-founder of the Democratic Labour Party. She served as Da Silva's Minister of Energy and became Chief of Staff after José Dirceu's resignation amidst scandal. She was elected the presidency in a run-off election on 31 October 2010.
Image 13
Beppe Grillo
Photograph: Niccolò Caranti
Beppe Grillo (b. 1948) is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger and political activist who established the Five Star Movement in 2009. Born in Genoa, Grillo became well known as a comic through several television shows in the 1980s, but following jokes which attacked the corruption of the Italian Socialist Party and its leader Bettino Craxi he was banned from television. Grillo continued to tour as a comedian while speaking out against corruption and banking scandals, and in 2005 Time named him a European hero.
Image 14
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Image credit: The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter who sought to inject movement and spontaneity into his works. This engraving, done to commemorate him after his death, shows his sculpture Flore below him, and others of his works above. In his time, some of his works, particularly La Danse, were criticised as indecent, but today his sculptures are exhibited in major museums of art worldwide.
Image 15
Alice Paul
Photograph credit: Harris & Ewing; restored by Adam Cuerden
Alice Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's-rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels as part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage on August 18, 1920. This photograph of Paul was taken in 1915 by the Harris & Ewing photographic studio in Washington, D.C.

editar

En este día – 30 de agosto

Nacimientos

1377 - Shah Rukh , gobernante de Persia y Transoxionia (f. 1447 )
1720 - Samuel Whitbread , cervecero inglés (f. 1796 )
1748 - Jacques-Louis David , (en la foto) pintor francés (f. 1825 )
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , escritora inglesa (f. 1851 )
1821 - Anita Garibaldi , guerrera brasileña; esposa de Garibaldi ( Guerra de los Andrajos ) (f. 1849 )
1871 - Ernest Rutherford , Premio Nobel de Química nacido en Nueva Zelanda (f. 1937 )
1893 - Huey Long , político estadounidense (f. 1935 )
1930 - Warren Buffett , empresario estadounidense
1943 - Robert Crumb , dibujante estadounidense
1954 – Alexander Lukashenko , presidente de Bielorrusia
1972 - Cameron Diaz , actriz estadounidense
1982 - Andy Roddick , tenista estadounidense

Fallecidos

526 - Teodorico el Grande (n. 454 )
1619 : Shimazu Yoshihiro , samurái y señor de la guerra japonés (n. 1535 )
1723 : Anton van Leeuwenhoek , comerciante y científico holandés (n. 1632 )
1938 - Max Factor , maquillador y fabricante de cosméticos (n. 1877 )
1940 - JJ Thomson , físico inglés, premio Nobel (n. 1856 )
1963 - Guy Burgess , espía soviético nacido en Inglaterra (n. 1911 )
2003 - Charles Bronson , actor estadounidense (n. 1921 )
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple , astrónomo estadounidense (n. 1906 )
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz , escritor egipcio, premio Nobel (n. 1911 )

En las noticias

13 de febrero de 2024 – Relaciones entre Estonia y Rusia: Según se informa , la primera ministra de Estonia, Kaja Kallas, ha sido incluida en el registro de personas buscadas del Ministerio del Interior ruso debido a la eliminación de los monumentos conmemorativos de la guerra soviética en el país , lo que convierte a Kallas en el primer líder gubernamental conocido en ser añadido a una lista de personas buscadas por las autoridades rusas . (The Guardian)
4 de febrero de 2024 – 66.ª edición de los premios Grammy: Taylor Swift gana el premio Álbum del año por Midnights , convirtiéndose en la primera artista en ganar el premio cuatro veces. También anuncia el lanzamiento de un nuevo álbum, The Tortured Poets Department , el 19 de abril. (Variety)
27 de enero de 2024 –: El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela ratifica la inhabilitación para ejercer cualquier cargo político durante 15 años para María Corina Machado , líder opositora apoyada por Estados Unidos . (Le Monde) (The Economist)
24 de enero de 2024 –: El Tribunal Constitucional de Tailandia absuelve al ex líder del Partido Move Forward, Pita Limjaroenrat, de poseer acciones en la extinta empresa de medios iTV , lo que le permite a Limjaroenrat volver a ejercer como miembro del Parlamento en la Cámara de Representantes . (AP)
23 de enero de 2024 –: Corea del Norte derriba el Arco de la Reunificación en Pyongyang después de que el líder norcoreano Kim Jong Un descartara una reunificación pacífica con Corea del Sur . (NDTV); El comité de mujeres del Senado de Filipinas lleva a cabo una audiencia pública sobre los presuntos abusos en el Reino de Jesucristo . Tres mujeres, dos ciudadanas ucranianas y una filipina, acusan al líder de la iglesia Apollo Quiboloy de abusar sexualmente de ellas. (CNN Filipinas)